Author · Speaker

Luis Gonçalves

Helping non-technical professionals build real products with AI — while still employed.

Bio

About

Luis Gonçalves is the founder of the Solopreneur Revolution and the creator of the BUILD method — a practical system for building software with AI as a non-technical founder.

He has spent two decades in digital product development, led an agile transformation at Nokia, and teaches at Porto Business School. Over the last decade he has worked with founders across Portugal, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and the broader emerging-market startup ecosystem.

His work centres on a simple, contrarian idea: the people best placed to build the next decade of products are experienced professionals with deep domain knowledge — not 22-year-old dropouts.

Speaking topics

Talks

Why the startup playbook is dead — and what replaced it

Building software with AI when you're not technical

The employed founder: building before you leap

Honest entrepreneurship in the age of hype

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